SNP-ets

Episode 2: The Importance of Implementing Active Study Habits

In this short video, Dr. Jasmine Donkoh interviews Dr. Jenny Knight (University of Colorado Boulder) about:

• The difference between passive and active study habits;

• Why strategies like self-testing significantly impact student success;

• What recent research says about student follow-through and learning outcomes;

• How incorporating active study practices can address common challenges in biology courses.

Episode 1: A SNP-et about lesson level learning objectives

In this short video, Dr. Jasmine Donkoh interviews Dr. Scott Freeman (University of Washington) about:

• the value of lesson-level learning objectives;

• the NSF study Nationally endorsed learning objectives to improve course design in introductory biology recently published in PLOS ONE (Hennessey and Freeman, 2025);

• and she brings in Dr. Alexa Clemmons to show how Codon’s platform can help students develop stronger metacognitive skills using lesson level learning objectives.